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Nilsen. They had their hands more than full on board. 

 Diesel's firm in Stockholm sent their experienced fitter, 

 Aspelund, who at once set to work to overhaul the 

 motor thoroughly. The work that had to be done was 

 executed gratis by the Laxevaag engineering works. 

 After going into the matter thoroughly, it was decided 

 to change the solar oil we had on board for refined petro- 

 leum. Through the courtesy of the West of Norway 

 Petroleum Company, we got this done on very favour- 

 able terms at the company's storage dock in Skaalevik. 

 This was troublesome work, but it paid in the future. 



The samples of water from our trip were taken to the 

 biological station, where Kutschin at once went to work 

 with the filtering (determination of the proportion of 

 chlorine). 



Our German shipmate, the oceanographer Schroer, 

 left us at Bergen. On July 23 the Fram left Bergen, 

 and arrived on the following day at Christiansand, 

 where I met her. Here we again had a series of busy 

 days. In one of the Custom-house warehouses were 

 piled a quantity of things that had to go on board: 

 no less than 400 bundles of dried fish, all our ski and 

 sledging outfit, a waggon-load of timber, etc. At 

 Fredriksholm, out on Flekkero, we had found room for 

 perhaps the most important of all the passengers, the 

 ninety-seven Eskimo dogs, which had arrived from 

 Greenland in the middle of July on the steamer Hans 

 Egede. The ship had had a rather long and rough 



